Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The new head of the Seattle FBI office is wiping off the dust of a 13-year-old investigation into the fatal shooting of a Seattle federal prosecutor after expressing “momentum” in the case, the Seattle Times reports. “It’s an ongoing, active investigation,” Special Agent in Charge Frank Montoya Jr. said during a wide-ranging…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Daniel McMullen, the first black special agent in charge of Jackson’s FBI office, has announced his retirement. “As a person with an interest in history itself and the history of the civil rights movement and an understanding of where Mississippi was in the history of civil rights, I find it very interesting…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s Pittsburgh office has a new special agent in charge. On Monday, the FBI named Scott S. Smith, a veteran agent with ties to northern Ohio, as the office’s new leader, replacing Doug Perdue, a two-year veteran of the post who is embarking on an assignment in Washington D.C., the Pittsburgh…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Gregory T. Bretzing, a former accountant who joined the FBI in 1995, will take the helm at the FBI’s Oregon office on Monday. Bretzing will become special agent in charge after serving as inspector at the bureau’s Washington D.C. headquarters for the past 18 months. Bretzing, 47, also supervised a joint terrorism…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com J. Britt Johnson, who began his career with the FBI in 1995 and spent much of his time combating violent crime, will serve as special agent in charge of the bureau’s Atlanta division, the FBI announced Monday. FBI Director James B. Comey tapped Johnson for the role. Johnson was most recently the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Gregory T. Bretzing, a former accountant who joined the FBI in 1995, will become special agent in charge of Oregon’s FBI office, The Oregonian reports. Bretzing, 47, will take over on March 31. Bretzing, whose father was an FBI agent, served as inspector at the bureau’s Washington D.C. headquarters for the past…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Robert Holley, one of the FBI’s premier counterterrorism experts, was tapped to head the bureau’s Chicago office, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. The 55-year-old will join the Chicago office as the new Special Agent in Charge in October, the Sun-Times wrote. Holley worked in Chicago in the past as the office’s lead counterterrorism…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The former special agent in charge of Boston’s FBI office has been slapped with a federal ethics violation for consulting professionally with a former colleague within a year of service, the Associated Press reports. Kenneth Kaiser, 57, who became an assistant director at FBI headquarters when he left the Boston office in…
